IT Infrastructure for Healthcare
Access control, tested recovery, and infrastructure designed around protected health information.
Designed against
- HIPAA Security Rule
- HITECH
- NIST 800-66
- GDPR (EU health data)
We build and document to these frameworks. We are not an audit firm and do not issue attestations.
- 01
Downtime has a clinical cost, not just a financial one
When a scheduling system or imaging store is unavailable, appointments do not reschedule themselves. Recovery objectives have to be set against clinical impact, then tested against it.
- 02
PHI ends up in places nobody planned for
Protected health information leaks into log files, database exports, test environments and email attachments. The architecture has to make the correct path the easy one, because policy alone does not hold.
- 03
Legacy clinical software constrains everything
Vendor applications requiring an unsupported operating system are the norm, not the exception. They cannot always be replaced, so they have to be isolated and compensated for.
Controls, not features
Each of these produces its own evidence as a by-product of running normally, so the proof exists before anyone asks for it.
- Network segmentation isolating clinical systems and medical devices from general traffic
- Least-privilege access with multi-factor authentication enforced, and break-glass accounts monitored
- Encrypted backups with recovery objectives set per system and tested against them
- Audit trails covering access to systems holding protected health information
- Compensating controls and isolation for legacy clinical applications that cannot be patched
- Business associate agreement in place before any engagement touching PHI
Server Management
Servers that are patched, monitored and documented, so nobody on your team has to become the accidental sysadmin.
IT Infrastructure
Networks, devices and offices designed once and designed properly, instead of grown by accident.
Managed Services
A full IT department on a flat monthly fee, with a named engineer who knows your setup.
- 01Week 0
Assess
- 02Weeks 1 to 2
Blueprint
- 03Weeks 2 to 8
Build & Migrate
- 04Ongoing
Operate
About Healthcare & Life Sciences
Ask Something ElseYes, and it is signed before we touch any system holding protected health information, never after the project starts. If an engagement can be scoped so we never access PHI at all, we design it that way first.
Common, and not automatically a blocker. We isolate the system on its own segment, restrict what can reach it, monitor it, and document the residual risk in writing, so it is a decision you have made rather than drifted into.
We set recovery time and recovery point objectives per system with your clinical leads, because an imaging archive is not an intranet. Then we test restores on a schedule and report measured recovery against the target. An untested DR plan is only a document.